Learn about the process of designing a handwoven textile with artist-in-residence Luam Melake. In this iteration of MADmakes, Melake will show examples of historical precedents and lead a discussion on the significance of color, composition, and material selection, while participants gain hands-on experience drafting designs for textiles on graph paper. Visitors will have the opportunity to create samples of their designs by weaving paper strips on small finger looms to better understand the process from design to realization.

Led by MAD’s artists-in-residence, MADmakes is a drop-in, hands-on series where visitors can test their skills at art making and creative production. MADmakes provides an opportunity for visitors to better understand and appreciate the workmanship that goes into contemporary studio practice today. Visitors of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels are invited to create something new every month.

MADmakes engages visitors in various art making processes, techniques and ideas. Led by artists-in-residence, MADmakes is a drop-in, hands-on series where visitors can test their skills at art making and creative production. MADmakes provides an opportunity for visitors to better understand and appreciate the workmanship that goes into contemporary studio practice today.

Learn how to create open-faced molds with artist-in-residence Mimi Bai. Visitors will imprint a variety of textiles and patterns into clay using their fingers and simple clay tools, and then learn how to mix and pour plaster to cast their own creations.

Curator and historian Lowery Stokes Sims leads an hour-long public discussion in the gallery-situated studio of Maria Hupfield, currently featured as an artist-in-residence in Cycle 2 of Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field.

Receiving critical feedback from trusted peers and professionals is essential to any artist’s studio practice. For this program, historian and author Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts will lead an hour-long public discussion in the gallery-situated studio of Xenobia Bailey, currently featured as an artist-in-residence in Cycle 2 of Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field.